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Wednesday, July 01, 2015

Portrait of a Crooked Government Contractor

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COMPUTER SCIENCES CORPORATION (CSC) – Waste, Fraud and Abuse BY THE NUMBERSFinancial Manipulation“SEC Press Release”” The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged Computer
Sciences Corporation and former executives with manipulating financial
results and concealing significant problems about the company’s largest
and most high-profile contract.CSC agreed to pay a $190 million penalty to settle the charges, and five of the eight charged executives agreed to settlements. ”Securities and Exchange Commission Press Release

Resume Padding, Time Card Fraud and Kickbacks“Project on Government Oversight”“This wasn’t CSC’s first run-in with its federal customers. In 2000, CSC’s credit services unit paid $6.4 million to settle allegations that it made false claims for payment on federal student loan programs. A few months earlier, CSC paid $8,730
to settle fraudulent billing allegations on a contract with the Defense
Commissary Agency. In that instance, CSC employees were accused of
charging the government for the time they were attending college
classes. In 2005, CSC reimbursed the government $1.3 million
after discovering a former employee, over a nine-year period, billed
NASA for payments made to fictitious companies. In 2008, CSC agreed to fork over almost $1.4 million
to resolve a False Claims Act lawsuit alleging it took part in a
massive kickback and bribery scheme among federal IT contractors dating
back to the 1990s.”False Claims, Securities Litigation, Software Litigation“Project on Government Oversight”“Founded in 1959, Computer Sciences Corporation is a global
information technology (IT) services company. With approximately 80,000
employees, CSC provides systems design and integration, IT and business
process outsourcing, applications software development, Web and
application hosting, and management consulting.Total Number of Instances: 8″Contractor Misconduct Data Base - CSC

A History of Government Cronyism and Poor Performance for Over a Decade“Washington Post” 2005“Groundbreaker, a $2 billion effort to modernize and outsource the
agency’s [NSA] electronics infrastructure, including computers, software
and networks. A CSC-led team in 2001 won the Groundbreaker contract. As part of the contract, about 1,000 NSA employees became employees of CSC or one of its teammates.Groundbreaker
and Trailblazer were supposed to work together, but both are believed
to be behind schedule and over budget, Aid said. “You cannot do one
without the other,” he said. Hayden, in his testimony in April,
acknowledged that NSA initially had mishandled the Trailblazer contract.
“We learned within Trailblazer that when we asked industry for
something they had or something close to what they already had, they
were remarkable in providing us a response, an outcome,” Hayden told the
committee. “When we asked them for something that no one had yet
invented, they weren’t any better at inventing it than we were in doing
it ourselves.”Trail Blazer Loses Its WayWhy is the
contractor still doing business spending your taxes under billions in
active contracts? We suggest you inquire with your Senator and your
Congressman.

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Retired from 36 Years in the Defense Industrial Complex after working on 25 major weapons systems, many of which are in use today in the Middle East.
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